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[SIPTA] ECSQARU 2013 in Utrecht, The Netherlands (Call for Papers)

by Gaag

Dec. 3, 2012

[SIPTA] FW: IEEE SSCI with 14 Keynotes & 28 Special Sessions (planned) in Singapore, April 2013

by Kreinovich

FYI, engineering-related imprecise probability papers are welcome at Engineering Applications Symposium ********************************************************************************************* From: Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan (Assoc Prof) [mailto:EPNSugan(a)ntu.edu.sg] please use the CFP appearing below. please indicate that the submission will close on 12th Dec at midnight GMT. thanks Suganthan ________________________________________ Please kindly forward to your colleagues and contacts who may attend this event. CALL For Contributions LISTING OF PLANNED KEYNOTES & TUTORIALS (more will be included to this listing): http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/Keynote-Tutorial.h… To submit a paper, please go to: http://ieee-ssci.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: Tutorial \ Keynote Proposal Submission: Before 15th Jan 2013 Tutorial \ Keynote Decision Notification: 10 Feb 2013 Paper submission: 12 Dec 2012 , Midnight GMT. Decision: 10 Jan 2013 Final submission: 05 Feb 2013 Early Registration: 05 Feb 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, IEEE SSCI 2013 15-19 April 2013, Singapore http://ieee-ssci.org/ IEEE SSCI 2013 is one of the two flagship biennial international events sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) promoting all aspects of the theory and applications of computational intelligence. The IEEE SSCI co-locates several technical meetings at one location. This event attracts top researchers, professionals, and students from around the world. The IEEE SSCI 2013 (Singapore) now calls contributions from experts around the world. Please visit the IEEE SSCI 2013's web pages to learn more about the relevant topics and proposal submission procedures. The conference proceedings of the IEEE SSCI have always been included in the IEEE Xplore and indexed by all other important databases. For example, the proceedings of the IEEE SSCI 2011 have already been included in the IEEE Xplore and indexed by databases such as EI, SCOPUS, etc. LIST OF SYMPOSIA & WORKSHOPS: http://ieee-ssci.org/ ADPRL 2013, IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Marco Wiering, The Netherlands; Jagannathan Sarangapani, USA; Huaguang Zhang, China. IEEE ALIFE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life, Terry Bossomaier, Australia; Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, UK; Hiroki Sayama, USA. CCMB 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, Leonid Pervlovsky, USA; Damien Coyle, UK; Kai Keng Ang, Singapore; Jose F Fontanari, Brazil; Robert Kozma, USA. CIASG 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid, Ganesh K Venayagamoorthy, USA; Jung-Wook Park, Korea; Haibo He, USA. CIBCB 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Jung-Hsien Chiang, Taiwan; Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, Taiwan. CIBIM 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management, David Zhang, Hong Kong; Qinghan Xiao, Canada; Fabio Scotti, Italy. CIC 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity, Chuan-Kang Ting, Taiwan; Francisco Fernández de Vega Spain; Palle Dahlstedt, Sweden; CICA 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation, Xiao-Jun Zeng, UK. CICARE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health, Amir Hussain, UK; Calum MacRae, Harvard Medical School, USA; Warner Slack, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. CIComms 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Communication Systems, Maode Ma, Singapore; Paolo Rocca, Italy; Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Ireland. CICS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security, Dipankar Dasgupta, USA; Justin Zhan, USA; Kumaraguru Ponnurangam, India. CIDM 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Barbara Hammer, Germany; Zhi-Hua Zhou, China; Lipo Wang, Singapore; Nitesh Chawla, USA. CIDUE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Yaochu Jin, UK; S Yang, UK; Robi Polikar, USA. CIES 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions, Michael Beer, UK; Vladik Kreinovich, USA; Rudolf Kruse, Germany. CIEL 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning, Nikhil R Pal, India; Xin Yao, UK; P N Suganthan, Singapore. CIFEr 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics, Shu-Heng Chen, Taiwan; Robert Golan, USA; Han La Poutre, The Netherlands; Ronald R. Yager, USA. CIfIoT 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for the Internet of Things, Antonio Manzalini, Italy; Hussein Mouftah, Canada; Vincenzo Piuri, Italy. CIHLI 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence, Jacek Mandziuk, Poland; Wlodzislaw Duch, Poland. CII 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry, Piero Bonissone, USA; Keeley Crockett, UK; Cristian Figueroa, Chile; Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain. CIMI 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Gerald Schaefer, UK; Sergio Damas, Spain. CIMSVP 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing, K M Iftekharuddin, USA; S Bouzerdoum, Australia. CIPLS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems, Bülent Çatay, Turkey; Raymond Chiong, Australia; Patrick Siarry, France. CIRAT 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, Guilherme N DeSouza,USA; Shuzhi Sam Ge, Singapore. CISched 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling, Rong Qu, UK; Ling Wang, China; Quanke Pan, Liaocheng University, China. CISDA 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications, Akira Namatame, Japan; Nur Zincir-Heywood, Canada; Rami Abielmona, Canada. CIVI 2013, IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence, Guilherme N DeSouza, USA; Yuanqiang (Evan) Dong, USA. CIVTS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems, Dimitar Filev, USA; Danil Prokhorov, USA. CompSens 2013, IEEE Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology, Ivo Bukovsky, Czech Republic; Torsten Wagner, Japan EAIS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Evolving Adapting Intelligent Systems, Plamen Angelov, UK; Dimitar Filev, USA; Nikola Kasabov, New Zealand. FOCI 2013, IEEE Symposium on Foundations of computational Intelligence, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Spain; Carlos Cotta, Spain. GEFS 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems, Rafael Alcala, Spain; Yusuke Nojima, Japan. HIMA 2013, IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications, Patricia Melin, Mexico; Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, India. IA 2013, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, Hani Hagras, UK; Vincenzo Loia, Italy. ICES 2013, IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems - From Biology to Hardware, Andy M Tyrrell, UK; Pauline C Haddow, Norway. MC 2013, IEEE Symposium on Memetic Computing, Zexuan Zhu, China; Maoguo Gong, China; Ji Zhen, China; Yew-Soon Ong, Singapore. MCDM 2013, IEEE Symposium on Multicriteria Decision-Making , Carlos A Coello Coello, Mexico; Piero Bonissone, USA; Yaochu Jin, UK. OC 2013, IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing, Rolf Würtz, Germany. QCCI 2013, IEEE Symposium on Quantum Computing and Computational Intelligence, William N N Hung, USA; Swagatam Das, India; Marek Perkowski, USA. RiiSS 2013, IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space, Honghai Liu, UK; Naoyuki Kubota, Japan. SDE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution, Janez Brest, Slovenia; Swagatam Das, India; Ferrante Neri, Finland; P N Suganthan, Singapore. SIS 2013, IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Yuhui Shi, P. R. China; P N Suganthan, Singapore. T2FUZZ 2013, IEEE Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems, Simon Coupland, UK; Woeiwan Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore WACI 2013, Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence, Jean-Claude Martin, France, Marie-Jeanne Lesot, France; Maria Rifqi, France.

Nov. 28, 2012

[SIPTA] BFAS Spring School on Belief Functions Theory and Applications

by Arnaud Martin

Nov. 26, 2012

[SIPTA] PhD studentship on Belief Theory

by Fabio Cuzzolin

Dear all, I have an opening for a PhD studentship in belief functions theory, could you please make me aware of strong candidates with strong math skills interested in the job. Deadline (for now) is December 5th. Best, Fabio The Department of Computing and Communications Technologies at Oxford Brookes University is pleased to announce that it is able to offer a Doctoral Bursary to a new PhD student in for full time study commencing in January 2013. The successful applicant will have course fees waived and will be awarded a bursary of £10,000 per annum for three years (with no inflation increase). The PhD project will be focus on decision making and estimation. These are central problems in most applied sciences, as both people and machines need to make inferences about the state of the external world, and take appropriate actions. Traditionally, the (uncertain) state of the world is assumed to be described by a probability distribution over a set of alternative, disjoint hypotheses. Sometimes, however, as in the case of extremely rare events (e.g., a volcanic eruption), few statistics are available to drive the estimation. Part of the data can be missing. Furthermore, under the law of large numbers, probability distributions are the outcome of an infinite process of evidence accumulation, drawn from an infinite series of samples: in all practical cases, instead, the available evidence only provides some sort of constraint on the unknown probabilities governing the process. All these issues have led to the recognition of the need for a coherent mathematical theory of uncertainty. Shafer’s theory of belief functions, in particular, allows us to express partial belief by providing lower and upper bounds to probability values. It is appealing because it addresses all the above mentioned issues; its rationale is neat and simple; it is a straightforward generalization of probability theory; it does not require abandoning the notion of event. The widespread influence of uncertainty at different levels explains why belief functions are being increasingly applied to fields as diverse as robotics, fault analysis, decision making, sensor fusion, machine vision, and many more. Mathematically, a belief function is a random set, i.e. a probability distribution on the power set (the collection of all subsets). Equivalent alternative interpretations can be given in terms of compatibility relations, inner measures, and sum functions. However, the necessary mathematical tools for prediction and estimation in this framework have only partially been developed yet, due to their inherent complexity: this is the case, in particular, for the generalization of the classical total probability theorem to belief functions. The aim of this studentship is to study the mathematical properties of belief functions, and give a contribution towards the development of crucial tools such as the total belief theorem. Informal requests: fabio.cuzzolin(a)brookes.ac.uk Formal applications: follow the instructions here: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFL096/phd-studentship/ and contact jheaton(a)brookes.ac.uk

Nov. 23, 2012

[SIPTA] Special Session on Imprecise Probabilities at FUSION 2013, Istanbul, 9 - 12 July 2013

by Benjamin Noack

Nov. 15, 2012

[SIPTA] Invitation to track classification and clustering in ICMSAO 2013

by Zied Elouedi

I am writing to cordially invite you to submit a paper to the track classification and clustering organized in The 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’13) that will be held in April 28-30, 2013, Hammamet, TUNISIA (http://www.icmsao.org/) Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. All accepted and presented papers will be published in IEEEXplore (pending). Selected papers will be published in one or more special issues of reputed, abstracted, and indexed journals. For any questions please send me an email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr Track: Classification and clustering http://icmsao13.trackchair.com/track/1085 Track Chair: Zied Elouedi University of Tunis, Tunisia Email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr Deadline : December 1, 2012 best regards zied

Nov. 12, 2012

[SIPTA] Track "classification and classification" in ICMSAO 2013

by Zied Elouedi

FYI -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A track on classification and clustering is organized in This is a track of The 5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’13) That will be held in April 28-30, 2013, Hammamet, TUNISIA Track: Classification and clustering http://icmsao13.trackchair.com/track/1085 Track Chair: Zied Elouedi University of Tunis, Tunisia Email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr deadline : December 1, 2012 submissions of papers are well welcome for any questions please send me an email: zied.elouedi(a)gmx.fr

Nov. 7, 2012

[SIPTA] SIPTA Blog at http://www.sipta.org/blog/

by Erik Quaeghebeur

Dear colleagues, The SIPTA Blog at http://www.sipta.org/blog/ has, after a bit of delay, received its second post and is now officially launched. Please go and have a look. The blog is edited by Fabio Cozman and Erik Quaeghebeur; our Executive Editor Sébastien Destercke provides support in the background. Everyone in the SIPTA Community can contribute! Contact one of the editors if you are interested in doing so. We see it as an electronic continuation of the Newsletter, so do not hesitate to send us contributions (reports on meetings, book or recent literature reviews, interviews, software presentations,...) or request an account in case you would like to make regular posts. Best regards, Fabio & Erik

Oct. 31, 2012

[SIPTA] open faculty positions at University of Texas at El Paso

by Kreinovich

This is not specifically about uncertainty, but maybe this fits your area of expertise or area of someone you know: http://www.cs.utep.edu/DeptCS/hiring/open-position2013.html The Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position for start of fall 2013. We seek candidates whose research focus is in security or big data, especially with interdisciplinary connections. Exceptional candidates in other areas will also be considered. We strongly encourage women and candidates from underserved groups to apply. http://www.admin.utep.edu/DesktopModules/DNN%20Faculty%20Job%20Board/MoreIn… POSITION DESCRIPTION: The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in coordination with the Cyber-ShARE Center of Excellence (www.Cyber-ShARE.utep.edu) is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to support the growth of the Center's interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-centered research efforts in Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web. Duties include teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students; conducting publishable research; grantsmanship; interdisciplinary collaboration at the Center; and department/university service. The ideal applicant should have extensive experience in working with interdisciplinary teams, a substantial record of scholarly work and professional service, the potential to secure external funding, experience in mentoring students, and the ability to contribute to the education and training of the next-generation of CI-savvy scientists and engineers. Anticipated appointment date is fall 2013.

Oct. 30, 2012

[SIPTA] what does IP say about US elections?

by Alessio Benavoli

Oct. 25, 2012